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The full article by Wayne Madsen is here:

 

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html

 

Smoking Gun Emerges in Vote Rigging Story

Congressman Hired Programmer to Write Vote Switch Program

 

The people elected John Kerry for president in 2004. That is what one must

conclude. from a blockbuster story being investigated and reported by Wayne

Madsen at OnlineJournal.com . In a series of four articles Masdsen has

reported on the emergence of a whistleblower, a computer programmer, who

says he was hired by a Florida congressman to write a program which could

flip votes in the electronic voting machines any way the operator wanted.

Names are named and details of the money trail are emerging. From the

information that Madsen has uncovered it appears that this vote flipping

program was used not only in the 2004 election, but as far back as the 2000

election, so it looks as though the will of the people has been thwarted at

least twice. The People themselves didn't even want George W. Bush in the

first place!

 

Madsen's latest article appeared today at OnlineJournal, and Somtum

provided a link to it , but I feel that it is so important that some

excerpts are warrented. It's funny, but had a hunch about this story when

Madsen published the first of the series the day after Thanksgiving,

thinking to myself " This is going to be big. " In fact after I read today's

article I went to Rense to see if it was there. It was not. I wrote to Jeff,

giving the link, and 20 minutes later it was up at Rense as a feature story.

Madsen is no hack, he's a respected journalist, and let's pray for him

because one dead body has already turned up in an apparent attempt to keep

this story quiet.

 

For the record, here are Madsen's four articles so far, in reverse order:

 

December 6, 2004 - Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine

operation paid for " vote switching " software

 

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html

 

December 1 2004 -Votergate: More details emerge

 

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120104Madsen/120104madsen.html

 

November 26, 2004 -More on the buying of electoral fraud by the Bush

campaign

 

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112604Madsen/112604madsen.html

 

November 25, 2004 - Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election

 

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/112504Madsen/112504madsen.html

 

And here are some excerpts from today's story. If the information is

correct and can be proven then the results of the 2004 election are bogus

and invalid and should be declared null and void. Are we following in the

footsteps of the Ukraine? And at least one U.S. Congressman should be

impeached and possible charged with treason. Madsen has already uncovered

enough information that a full scale investigation by congress is warranted.

Here is a situation where the " little man " can actually play a part, by

bombarding members of Congress, sending them the story, and demanding a

complete investigation into the allegations. That's what I'm going to do.

Let's put a little heat on them to actually BE the representative of the

People.

The excerpts which follow are from today's story, but for the full story

with all its details refer to all four articles linked above.

 

The gist of it is that in the year 2000 Florida Republican Representative

Tom Feeney hired a programmer, Clint Curtis, while he was working for NASA

contractor, Yang Enterprises, to write an undetectable vote flipping program

which could " control " the votes of electronic voting machines.

 

 

White House-linked to " vote switching " software

 

By Wayne Madsen

Online Journal Contributing Writer

December 6, 2004-The manipulation of computer voting machines in the

recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were

involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore

financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party

politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.

 

An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida

Republican Representative Tom Feeney, a customized Windows-based program to

suppress Democratic votes on touch screen voting machines, a Florida

computer services company with whom Feeney worked as a general counsel and

registered lobbyist while he was Speaker of the Florida House of

Representatives, and top level officials of the Bush administration.

 

According to a notarized affidavit signed by Clint Curtis, while he was

employed by the NASA Kennedy Space Center contractor, Yang Enterprises,

Inc., during 2000, Feeney solicited him to write a program to " control the

vote. " At the time, Curtis was of the opinion that the program was to be

used for preventing fraud in the in the 2002 election in Palm Beach County,

Florida. His mind was changed, however, when the true intentions of Feeney

became clear: the computer program was going to be used to suppress the

Democratic vote in counties with large Democratic registrations.

 

According to Curtis, Feeney and other top brass at Yang Enterprises, a

company located in a three-story building in Oviedo, Florida, wanted the

prototype written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) in Microsoft Windows and the

end-product designed to be portable across different Unix-based vote

tabulation systems and to be " undetectable " to voters and election

supervisors.

 

 

 

The plot gets very complicated as Madsen digs into details about Yang

Enterprises, Inc., whom Curtis was working for at the time Congressman Feeny

contacted him to write the vote rigging program.

 

In the autumn of 1999, Curtis, who served as a sort of technology

adviser for Yang, first became aware of Feeney's interest in election

rigging. Curtis said at one meeting, Feeney " bragged that he could reduce

the minority vote and deliver the election to 'George.' " At the same

meeting, according to Curtis, Feeney said he had " implemented a list that

would eliminate thousands of voters that would vote for Democratic

candidates " and that " a proper placement of police patrols could further

reduce the black vote by as much as 25 percent. "

...

In the autumn of 1999, Curtis, who served as a sort of technology

adviser for Yang, first became aware of Feeney's interest in election

rigging. Curtis said at one meeting, Feeney " bragged that he could reduce

the minority vote and deliver the election to 'George.' " At the same

meeting, according to Curtis, Feeney said he had " implemented a list that

would eliminate thousands of voters that would vote for Democratic

candidates " and that " a proper placement of police patrols could further

reduce the black vote by as much as 25 percent. "

...

Curtis said he developed the voting program and eventually handed off

his prototype to Feeney.

 

Madsen has done a lot of work tracking the complicated relationships and

organizations involved in this story. There are connections to NASA, and, as

one might expect, the president's brother Jeb Bush. Also involved was Ray C.

Lemme, a seasoned senior investigator with the Florida DOT Inspector

General's Office who was investigating improprieties in Yang's contracts

with Florida DOT. Poor Mr. Lemme wound up dead, apparently " suicided " in a

motel bathtub. " A doctor, with 25 years' clinical experience, who was

interviewed for this story claimed that the circumstances of Lemme's death

appeared to him to be a classic 'mob hit.' "

 

 

Lemme was forced to stop his official investigation of Yang for similar

reasons. However, he decided to continue an " unofficial " investigation of

Yang and its practices on the side. It was a fateful decision.

According to DOT employees familiar with the Yang case, Lemme was aware

that it was Jeb Bush who personally shut down his investigation of Yang.

 

Lemme also became aware of something else outside the framework of the

DOT contract-that Yang had been involved in producing a prototype vote

switching program for use with touch screen voting machines and that Tom

Feeney was in on the scam. The last time Clint Curtis spoke to Lemme, he

remembers the silver haired investigator excited about where his case was

leading. Lemme told Curtis that the cover up of Yang was coming from " as

high up as I could imagine " and that he had " proof " that was " shocking. "

 

 

I will leave it to the reader to consult Madsen's four articles for many

details involved. Madsen has done the American people a great service with

all his work. Today's article ends with some ironic speculation about the

intelligence sources which gave Madsen clues and put him on to the search.

He wonders if it might be a bit of payback for Bush's recent purge's in the

CIA.

 

 

People may wonder why a group of intelligence insiders would come

forward to a non-major media outlet with such tantalizing information at

this time. The corporate-beholden media cannot be trusted to report such a

news story. A common theme from all the intelligence and ex-intelligence

officials with whom I have communicated is that George W. Bush made a major

mistake in attacking and purging the clandestine service of the CIA. The

" agency, " which extends far beyond the confines of Langley, Virginia, is

having its revenge. It has willingly exposed a portion of a traditional

clandestine CIA money route to expose the vote scam that was used to ensure

Bush's election.

The clues, for example, the bogus check, were conveyed to us as exactly

that-clues. Those markers pointed to the illegal nature of the covert money

flows. The connections between NASA contracts, Texas, and Florida were

additional clues to one of the major sources of the money used for the vote

rigging. There were a number of roads that led to the same destination. But

that is the nature of covert intelligence. Some patriotic and brave people,

who have served in silence for a number of decades, have chosen their

country over a corrupt family and administration. It is now time for the

constitutional process to begin. Rectification of the criminal conspiracy

that denied John Kerry and John Edwards the White House must begin in Ohio,

and extend to Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, and other states where

votes were flipped by computers from the Kerry to the Bush column. Past

elections must also be investigated and those who were done in by this

fraud, namely, people like Max Cleland, Gray Davis, Al Gore, and others must

also have their day in court.